Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Secondhand Lions print no-show?

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Posted by Frank Bruno (Member # 1871) on 09-16-2003, 01:07 AM:

In Bridgewater, NJ this Sunday (9/14) we were supposed to have a sneak of "Secondhand Lions?" The print never showed up

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 09-16-2003, 01:53 AM:

That was a sunday sneak. If the print wasn't there by the Friday before the sneak I would have been calling the booker or the ETS depot to find out where it was.

Posted by Frank Bruno (Member # 1871) on 09-16-2003, 01:34 PM:

I happened to not have been on Friday night or Saturday. I would hope that soembody else would have had the sense to do that. For my own sanity I'm operating under the assumption that they did.

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 09-16-2003, 08:09 PM:

Frank-

Who delivers your prints from ETS? Our print was delivered along with five others on Thursday, by our delivery service. I call our service every week to give them our bookings, and if there is a problem, they always call us at the theater and advise.

Posted by Frank Bruno (Member # 1871) on 09-16-2003, 10:10 PM:

Our normal ETS delivery guy is on some kind of disability at the moment. Our ETS prints that used to show up around 2-4 o clock showed up at 9:30 pm, just our two regular release prints & not the sneak.
Being a mere operator (whom nothing was expected of besides the buildup of the print) I really can't do much besides ask management "Hey, you know the Secondhand Lions print isn't here yet. What's up with that?"

I posted here kind of hoping this was maybe New Line's or ETS' goof, and had happened elsewhere, but as its kind of making myself & my theater look foolish, I think Im taking my thread & going home.

Posted by Jim Leko (Member # 1287) on 09-18-2003, 10:59 PM:

Our print didn't show up today. They said it will arrive at 2am. Oh well, I was supposed to screen it. I just lost a couple hours of work. [Mad]

Hopefully the booth manager will build it up with enough time for me to come in and screen it before our first show tomorrow.

Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 09-19-2003, 08:32 PM:

Frank-

ETS does not deliver the prints. It only distributes them. If you will email me and let me know the delivery service that your theater uses, I may be able to shed some light on what happened.